Duck Soup
War is swell...when the Marx Brothers are in it. They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve!
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Director Leo McCarey
Trailer
Cast
Sidney Bracey
Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)
Verna Hillie
Trentino's Blonde Secretary (uncredited)
William Worthington
First Minister of Finance (uncredited)
Louis Calhern
Ambassador Trentino
Edgar Kennedy
Street Vendor
E.H. Calvert
Officer in Battle Sequence (uncredited)
Louise Closser Hale
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Frederick Sullivan
Second Judge (uncredited)
Harpo Marx
Pinky
Raquel Torres
Vera Marcal
George MacQuarrie
First Judge (uncredited)
Edmund Breese
Zander
Charles Middleton
Prosecutor
Edward Arnold
Politician (uncredited)
Maude Turner Gordon
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell
Freedonia's Secretary of War #1 (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
A Palace Guard (uncredited)
Zeppo Marx
Bob Roland
Margaret Dumont
Gloria Teasdale
Davison Clark
Minister of Finance #2 (uncredited)
Charles West
Minister (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Bridegroom at Firefly's Reception (uncredited)
Groucho Marx
Rufus T. Firefly
Chico Marx
Chicolini
Leonid Kinskey
Sylvanian Agitator
Edward LeSaint
Secretary of Labor (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Third Judge (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Officer at Battle Headquarters (uncredited)
Carrie Daumery
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Reception Guest (uncredited)